Nonfics
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Rating
Title/Year
Author
1
All worth watching, whether together or separately.
Posted Feb 11, 2019
2
A great work of love.
Posted Feb 9, 2019
3
Rodents of Unusual Size (2018)
Rodents of Unusual Size is informative and entertaining and, in light of the subject matter, shockingly pleasant to watch.
Posted Feb 6, 2019
4
Untouchable (2019)
"Director Ursula Macfarlane attacks our desensitized culture. Here is a confrontation between filmmaker and consumer."
Posted Feb 6, 2019
5
Midnight Family (2019)
6
I will always appreciate a doc that leans heavily into the subject's own voice and art.
Posted Feb 5, 2019
7
Gaza (2019)
I hate to say that the unfolded structure of Gaza is brilliant because it's also obviously very tragic.
Posted Feb 5, 2019
8
You owe it to Larsson to watch ... not only to honor what he was trying to do then but to recognize that this is a history of what's happened in much of the world.
Posted Jan 28, 2019
9
Sea of Shadows (2019)
Hopefully, by the time you see Sea of Shadows, it hasn't taken on an elegiac quality.
Posted Jan 28, 2019
10
Midnight Traveler (2019)
Fazili doesn't lean that much on the hardships of the foursome's journey. There is plenty of that, yet also so much more.
Posted Jan 28, 2019
11
Bedlam (2019)
What Bedlam exposes is an utter lack of relief for any of us.
Posted Jan 28, 2019
12
Love, Antosha (2019)
The many peers and friends interviewed for the documentary seem to have genuinely loved and, more importantly, been loved by Yelchin.
Posted Jan 28, 2019
13
Apollo 11 (2019)
A definitive statement on one of our proudest moments and a reminder that we are still capable of delivering greatness.
Posted Jan 26, 2019
14
Shooting the Mafia (2019)
The history of the Cosa Nostra and the life/work/presence of Battaglia are compelling enough ... Almost incidentally, but surely consciously, Longinotto gives us more.
Posted Jan 25, 2019
15
Uncomfortable but still engrossing ... a psychoanalyst could probably have a field day reviewing The Disappearance of My Mother.
Posted Jan 25, 2019
16
Fyre (2019)
It doesn't go any further than just giving the rundown of how the Fyre Festival became such a massive clusterf**k.
Posted Jan 17, 2019
17
Fyre Fraud (2019)
The better, or at least just the more streamlined, of two so-so documentaries about the Fyre Festival released in the same week.
Posted Jan 17, 2019
18
Communion (Komunia) (2019)
As gripping as it is stressfully withholding.
Posted Jan 4, 2019
19
Free Solo (2018)
20
L. Cohen (2018)
Benning seems to be merely attempting to document his personal experience of witnessing such a miraculous natural event, and miraculous it is indeed.
Posted Dec 5, 2018
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American Dharma (2018)
23
Fahrenheit 11/9 (2018)
24
Monrovia, Indiana (2018)
25
Braguino (2017)
26
The Feeling of Being Watched (2018)
An astounding, disheartening and occasionally messy bit of docu-journalism, The Feeling Of Being Watched feels like a profound act of patriotism poised to make waves.
Posted Dec 5, 2018
27
Yours in Sisterhood (2018)
28
Dreaming Murakami (2018)
Just under an hour in length, Dreaming Murakami packs a lot of big ideas and impressive formal experiments into its tantalizingly belletristic little package.
Posted Dec 5, 2018
29
The End of Fear (2018)
Visser struggles to invent ways to animate the story of an iconically inanimate work of art, but the attempt is spirited and entertaining nonetheless.
Posted Dec 5, 2018
30
Mrs. Fang (2017)
31
One of Us (2017)
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Love Means Zero (2017)
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Brimstone & Glory (2017)
There is no denying that this is a wholly original, immensely pleasurable experience that has no qualms about its lack of intellectualizing.
Posted Dec 5, 2018
38
Edith+Eddie (2017)
Edith+Eddie examines the psychic repercussions of familial estrangement to devastating effect.
Posted Dec 5, 2018
39
The Cage Fighter (2018)
Beautifully lensed and warmly characterized, it's essentially a nonfiction take on The Wrestler.
Posted Dec 5, 2018
40
Lindy Lou, Juror Number 2 (2017)
41
The Challenge (2017)
The Challenge follows the mind-boggling excesses of Arab aristocracy with the same biting exactitude we've come to expect from Ancarani.
Posted Dec 5, 2018
42
Rat Film (2017)
Rat Film embraces an off-kilter essayistic form that digs through the city's legislative history of systematic segregation...
Posted Dec 5, 2018
43
Miss Kiet's Children (2017)
Quiet and cute, but big hearted and bold in its serene handling of the immigrant experience, Miss Kiet's Children may have been my personal favorite.
Posted Dec 5, 2018
44
Rams (2018)
It's gesamtkunstwerk for the modular minimalist's soul; an attitude to art that is philosophy and vice versa.
Posted Dec 4, 2018
45
The Inquiring Nuns (1968)
Part cultural artifact, part sociological experiment, part American response to cinéma verité, it regularly overpowers its own gag to turn in something more complex.
Posted Nov 24, 2018
46
Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin (2018)
Le Guin's life story, as presented in the documentary, isn't particularly dramatic, but it is inspiring thanks to the author's incomparable imagination.
Posted Nov 14, 2018
47
"Less hubristic than its source material, Morgan Neville's softer version of this project is perhaps more satisfying."
Posted Nov 7, 2018
48
Distant Constellation (2018)
Maybe it's not a bad film, objectively, but I don't have any reason to recommend it.
Posted Nov 5, 2018
49
Liyana (2018)
The visually innovative documentary is a testament to the healing power of storytelling.
Posted Oct 31, 2018
50
Monrovia, Indiana (2018)